"Coffee without caffeine, liquor without alcohol, women without cunts, men without cocks. That's what is in here. In America." "It is not enough to paint flowers, one must also paint handman's nooses." Huugo Kalervo Palsa (March 12, 1947- Oct. 3, 1987), or Kalle; Finnish artist in a style that has been described as fantastic realism. Long neglected, Kalervo Palsa has enjoyed a revival of sorts since the publication of critical works, a biography and two major retrospectives in Helsinki and Pori. Among his local contemporaries of Kittilä in Lapland he had the reputation of a drunken artist masturbating at home and painting furiously. He is said to have felt haunted both by his perverse urges and the provincial and narrow-minded mental perimeter of his northern hometown. While he lived there, his abode was a tiny studio cabin which was closer to a shack than a house. He wired it for electricity by drawing a long extension cable from a nearby house. He called it his "Getsemane" after the biblical site, or sometimes his "castle in the clouds"..... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalervo_Palsa) Palsa began noting down events and thoughts in his diary at an early age. He drew a great number of self-portraits in his diaries, notebooks, and anything else that came to hand. He kept repainting his works, even those he had already considered finished, and made several different versions of some of them, allowing a theme to live on for many years before finally signing the work. Kalervo Palsa died of pneumonia in his studio in Kittilä on 4 October 1987. undefined

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